An Ode To Englishmen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB A DDED A FFGF H IIJI J KKLK H MMNM H OOPO H QQRQ O OOOO O LLQL O NNON O SSOS| I | A |
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| I who have sung of love and lady bright | B |
| And mirth and music and the world's delight | B |
| Behold to day I sound a sterner note | C |
| To move the minds of foemen when they fight | B |
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| II | A |
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| Have I not said There is no sweeter thing | D |
| And none diviner than the wedding ring | D |
| And all intent to make my meaning plain | E |
| Have I not kiss'd the lips of Love the King | D |
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| III | A |
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| Yea this is so But lo to day there comes | F |
| The far off sound of trumpets and of drums | F |
| And I must parley with the men of toil | G |
| Who rise in ranks exultant from the slums | F |
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| IV | H |
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| I must arraign each man yea all the host | I |
| And each true soul shall learn the least and most | I |
| Of all his wrongs if wrongs indeed they be | J |
| And he shall face the flag that guards the coast | I |
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| V | J |
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| He shall salute it He shall find therein | K |
| Salve for his wounds and solace for his sin | K |
| Brother and guide is he who loves his Land | L |
| But he is kinless who denies his kin | K |
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| VI | H |
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| Has he a heart to feel a knee to bend | M |
| And will not trust his country to the end | M |
| If this be so God help him to a tear | N |
| He shall be foiled as foeman and as friend | M |
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| VII | H |
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| Bears he a sword I care not He is base | O |
| Unfit to wield it and of meaner place | O |
| Than tongue can tell of in the Senate House | P |
| And he shall find no balm for his disgrace | O |
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| VIII | H |
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| O men I charge ye in the name of Him | Q |
| Who rules the world and guards the cherubim | Q |
| I charge ye pause ere from the lighted track | R |
| Ye turn distraught to pathways that are dim | Q |
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| IX | O |
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| Who gave your fathers and your fathers' sons | O |
| The rights ye claim amid the roar of guns | O |
| And 'mid the flash thereof from sea to sea | O |
| Your country through her lov'd her chosen ones | O |
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| X | O |
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| Oh ye are dastards if ye lift a hand | L |
| Dastards and fools if loveless in a band | L |
| Ye touch in wrath the bulwark of the realm | Q |
| Ye shall be baulk'd and Chivalry shall stand | L |
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| XI | O |
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| I have a sword I also and I swear | N |
| By my heart's faith and by my Lady's hair | N |
| That I will strike the first of ye that moves | O |
| If by a sign ye wrong the flag ye bear | N |
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| XII | O |
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| In Freedom's name in her's to whom we bow | S |
| In her great name I charge ye palter now | S |
| With no traducer of your country's cause | O |
| Accurst of God is he who breaks his vow | S |
Eric Mackay
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